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This best selling reader has been revised due to popular demand. This debate-style reader edited by John Rourkeexamines provocative issues in American politics today. The second edition includes new topics on gay marriage, pornography, immigration and more. The topics featured in You Decide! have been selected for their currency, importance, and student interest, and the pieces arguing various sides of a given issue come from recent journals, congressional hearings, think tanks, and periodicals. Sure to get students engaged and thinking critically about our political system, You Decide! is FREE when ordered packaged with any Longman American government textbook.

Preface

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Constitution

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Guns, Safety, and the Constitution: Individual Right or Subject to Regulation?

Source: ``For Ethnic Americans, The Old Country Calls,'' Foreign Service Journal, October 2000

Also suitable for chapters on Political Culture and Foreign Policy

Political Parties

128

(18)

The Odds-On Favorite in the Future: Democrats or Republicans?

The Odds-On Favorite in the Future: Democrats

Advocate: John B. Judis, Senior Editor, The New Republic, and Ruy Teixeira, Senior Fellow, the Century Foundation

Source: ``Americas Changing Political Geography: Where Democrats Can Build a Majority,'' Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century, September/October 2002

The Odds-On Favorite in the Future: Republicans

Advocate: Daniel Casse, Senior Director, White House Writers Group

Source: ``An Emerging Republican Majority?'' Commentary, January 2003

Also suitable for chapters on Elections

Voting/Campaigns/Elections

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(12)

The Electoral College: Abolish or Preserve?

The Electoral College: Abolish

Advocate: Becky Cain, President, League of Women Voters

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Proposals for Electoral College Reform: H.J. Res. 28 and H.J. Res. 43'' before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, September 4, 1997

The Electoral College: Preserve

Advocate: Judith A. Best, Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Cortland

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Proposals for Electoral College Reform: H.J. Res. 28 and H.J. Res. 43'' before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, September 4, 1997

Also suitable for chapters on Presidency, Federalism

Congress

158

(12)

Congressional Term Limits: Promoting Choice or Restricting Choice?

Congressional Term Limits: Promoting Choice

Advocate: Paul Jacob, Executive Director, U.S. Term Limits

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Limiting Terms of Office for Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives,'' before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, January 22, 1997

Congressional Term Limits: Restricting Choice

Advocate: John R. Hibbing, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Limiting Terms of Office for Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives,'' before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, January 22, 1997

Also suitable for chapters on Elections

Presidency

170

(16)

Presidential War Powers and Terrorism: Unilateral Authority or Constitutional Constraints?

Presidential War Power and Terrorism: Unilateral Authority

Advocate: Douglas Kmiec, Dean of the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Applying the War Powers Resolution to the War on Terrorism,'' before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, April 17, 2002

Presidential War Power and Terrorism: Constitutional Constraints

Advocate: Jane Stromseth, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Applying the War Powers Resolution to the War on Terrorism,'' before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, April 17, 2002

Also suitable for chapters on Constitution, Foreign Policy, National Security Policy

Bureaucracy

186

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The Department of Education and Title IX: Champion of Equality or Overzealous Crusader?

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Secretary's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, Hearings, August 27, 2002

The Department of Education and Title IX: Overzealous Crusader

Advocate: Amanda Ross-Edwards, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Fairfield University

Source: ``The Department of Education and Title IX: Flawed Interpretation and Implementation,'' an essay written for this volume, October 2003

Also suitable for chapters on Civil Rights, Education Policy

Judiciary

198

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Legal Philosophy as a Qualification for the Bench: Judicious Standard Or Obstructionist Barrier?

Legal Philosophy as a Qualification for the Bench: Judicious Standard

Advocate: Laurence H. Tribe, Professor, Harvard Law School

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Judicial Nominations, Filibusters, and the Constitution: When a Majority Is Denied Its Right to Consent,'' before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, May 6, 2002

Legal Philosophy as a Qualification for the Bench: Obstructionist Barrier

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``A Judiciary Diminished Is Justice Denied: The Constitution, the Senate, and the Vacancy Crisis in the Federal Judiciary'' before U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, October 10, 2002

Source: Testimony during hearings on the ``Balanced Budget Amendment'' before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, March 6, 2003

Also suitable for chapters on Constitution, Congress, Economic Policy

Criminal Justice Policy

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The Death Penalty: Racially Biased or Justice Served?

The Death Penalty: Racially Biased

Advocate: Julian Bond, Professor of History, University of Virginia and Distinguished Professor-in-Residence, American University

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Race and the Federal Death Penalty,'' before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, June 13, 2001

The Death Penalty: Justice Served

Advocate: Andrew G. McBride, former U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General

Source: Testimony during hearings on ``Race and the Federal Death Penalty,'' before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, June 13, 2001